Twenty years after it changed horror movies forever, the blair witch project is being made into a video game. Daniel myrick and eduardo sanchezs the blair witch project seemingly appeared from nowhere to become one of 1999s highest grossing films. It tells the fictional story of three student filmmakersheather donahue, michael c. Viral marketing campaigns for horror movies from the.
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